"C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around."

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Source : "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

Dennis Ritchie

#Growing Quotes #Java Quotes #Faster Quotes

“Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.”
“Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.”

Source : Robert Graves (1965). “Mammon and the black goddess”
“It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.”
“About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.”
“All I am is smoke and mirrors ...”
“For those who reflect on themselves, everything they encounter is medicine. For those who attack others, every thought is a weapon. One is the way to initiate all good, one is the way to deepen all evil. They are as far apart as sky and earth.”
“Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.”
“Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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